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Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Ian Smith, Rhodesia, and the crisis in Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 3 March 2026 The figure of Ian Smith stands awkwardly in the modern historical […]
Yemen’s 2026 ceasefire
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The ceasefire in Yemen is one of those rare political phenomena […]
The Russian Central Bank’s decision to require lenders to hold reserves in Yuan
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The announcement by the Central Bank of Russia under the stewardship […]
Reforming the Armed Forces of Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The latest reform programme for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced […]
The pioneering neuroscience of Charles M. Lieber, Chinese government agent
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The trajectory of modern neuroscience has increasingly converged with the ambitions […]
Cryptology as a political instrument
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 Cryptography is often imagined as a branch of mathematics, an austere […]
Mavka and the Spirit of Ukraine in Wartime
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 The recent Ukrainian ballet Mavka emerges not merely as an artistic […]
Can large language models understand their users?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 The aspiration to make machines understand us has always been more […]
War in Ukraine: is the Kremlin at a turning point?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 The temptation, when confronted with a fresh statement from the Kremlin, […]
Europe’s Energy Independence: Myth, Policy and Reality
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 30 April 2026 Europe speaks often of “energy independence” — a phrase that carries […]
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